Books like Mornings on Horseback
12 books with a reading profile close to Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Sonia Purnell chronicles the life of Virginia Hall, an American woman who overcame a prosthetic wooden leg and deep-seated institutional sexism to become a critical operative for the British Special Operations Executive…
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Antonia Fraser reconstructs the life of the last Queen of France, moving from her childhood as an Austrian archduchess to her execution during the French Revolution.
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Also clear-cut · history, biography
In April 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler hid in a hollowed-out woodpile for three days before slipping past the outer perimeter of Auschwitz.
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
by Kate Moore
Also clear-cut · history, biography
In 1860, Elizabeth Packard’s husband committed her to the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane because she challenged his religious authority and asserted her intellectual independence.
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Robert K.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
by Alison Weir
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Alison Weir’s historical account reconstructs the lives of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.
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No One Here Gets Out Alive
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman document the life and death of Jim Morrison, the frontman of The Doors.
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by Andrea Wulf
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Andrea Wulf chronicles the life of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth-century Prussian naturalist who envisioned the earth as a single living organism where all biological and physical forces are interconnected.
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Hallie Rubenhold reconstructs the biographies of Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly, shifting the historical focus away from their murderer.
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Jon Meacham focuses on the two terms of Andrew Jackson’s presidency, centering the narrative on the White House as a site of both political and domestic struggle.
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Kate Clifford Larson reconstructs the life of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest daughter of Joe and Rose Kennedy, who was born with intellectual disabilities.
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Sally Bedell Smith outlines the public and private trajectory of Elizabeth II, from her unexpected transition to heir presumptive to her Diamond Jubilee.
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